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Plant solute transport / edited by Anthony Yeo and Tim Flowers. — Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, c2007.—(58.843/P713s)

Contents

    Contents
    
    Preface Contributors
    1 General introduction
    1.1 Introduction
    1.2 Synopsis
    1.3 Concluding remarks
    2 Solutes: what are they, where are they and what do they do?
    2.1 Solutes: inorganic and organic
    2.2 Analysis of inorganic elements
    2.3 Solute concentrations
    2.4 Organic compounds
    2.5 Range of solutes found in plants
    2.6 Localisation
    2.7 What do they do?
    3 The driving forces ofr water and solute movement
    3.1 Introduction
    3.2 Water
    3.3 Free energy and the properties of solutions
    3.4 Cell water relations
    3.5 Water movement
    3.6 Solute movement
    3.7 Coupling of water and solute fluxes
    4 Membrane structure and the study of solute transport across plant membranes
    4.1 Introduction
    4.2 Plant membranes
    4.3 Studying solute transport across plant membranes
    4.4 Transport techniques using intact or semi-intact plant tissue
    4.5 Using isolated membranes for transport studies
    4.6 Using molecular techniques to inform transport studies
    4.7 Combining techniques (an example of increasing resolution and physiological context)
    4.8 Future development
    4.9 Conclusions
    5 Transport across plant membranes
    5.1 Introduction
    5.2 Passive transport
    5.3 Primary active transport
    5.4 Secondary active transport
    5.5 Concluding remarks
    6 Regulation of ion transporters
    6.1 Introduction
    6.2 Physiological situations requiring the regulation of ion transport
    6.3 Molecular mechanism of regulation
    6.4 Traffic of ion transporters
    6.5 Conclusions and outlook
    7 Intracellular transport: solute transport in chloroplasts, mitochondria, peroxisomes and vacuoles, and between organelles
    7.1 Introduction
    7.2 Chloroplasts
    7.3 Mitochondria
    7.4 Peroxisomes
    7.5 Photorespiration: transport between plastids, mitochondria and peroxisomes
    7.6 Vacuoles
    8 Ion uptake by plant roots
    8.l Introduction
    8.2 Soil composition
    8.3 Root exploration of the soil
    8.4 Physical factors affecting root uptake: depletion zones and Donnan potentials
    8.5 Radial transport of solutes across the outer part of the root
    8.6 Solute uptake from different root zones
    8.7 Transport of solutes to the xylem
    8.8 The kinetics of solute uptake into roots
    8.9 Conclusion References
    9 Transport from root to shoot
    9.1 Introduction
    9.2 Transport of water
    9.3 Transport of nutrients
    10 Solute transport in the phloem
    10.1 Introduction
    10.2 Phloem anatomy
    10.3 Phloem composition
    10.4 Sieve element water relations
    10.5 Exploitation by other organisms
    10.6 Conclusions
    11 Factors limiting the rate of supply of solutes to the root surface
    11.1 Introduction
    11.2 Supply of nutrients to the root surface
    11.3 Acquisition and uptake of nutrients by the root
    11.4 Acquisition of phosphorus
    11.5 Protected cropping systems: hydroponics as an example of 'ideally' controlled conditions
    11.6 Concluding remarks
    12 Mineral deficiency and toxicity
    12.1 Introduction
    12.2 Deficiency and efficiency: iron in alkaline soils
    12.3 Phosphate uptake in soils that are low in phosphate
    12.4 Toxicity and tolerance-aluminium in acid soils
    12.5 Toxicity and tolerance--essential and non-essential metals
    12.6 Concluding remarks
    13 Water-limited conditions
    13.1 Introduction
    13.2 Plant responses to reduced water availability
    13.3 Mechanisms to reduce water loss: regulation of stomata and regulation of leaf area
    13.4 Mechanisms to maintain water potential gradients: osmotic adjustment
    13.5 Mechanisms to acquire more water: root properties
    13.6 Mechanisms to increase water-use efficiency: C4 and crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)
    13.7 Gene regulation
    13.8 Concluding remarks
    14 Salinity
    14.l Introduction
    14.2 External concentration of salt up to about 50 mM NaC1
    14.3 External concentration of salt up to about 100-150 mM NaC1
    14.4 External concentration of salt above about 150-200 mM
    14.5 'Molecular' tolerance
    14.6 Cellular tolerance
    14.7 Moving on to a cell in a plant
    14.8 Salt glands
    14.9 Selectivity at the root
    14.10 Transport from root to shoot
    14.11 Transport from shoot to root
    14.12 Leaf cells
    14.13 Prospects
    14.14 Concluding remarks References
    15 Desiccation tolerance
    15.1 Introduction
    15.2 Occurrence of desiccation tolerance
    15.3 Desiccation tolerance in seeds
    15.4 Vegetative tissues
    15.5 Concluding remarks
    Index
    The colour plate section appears after page 78